Matt Bomer attends the 25th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on Jan. 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.Considering Matt Bomer regularly appears at the top of “Sexiest Man Alive” lists and has voiced Superman, the most famously hunky superhero of them all, it might be considered ironic that in his new role in the DC Universe show “Doom Patrol,” he plays a character whose entire body is covered in bandages.
“People always say, ‘What about Superman,’ they bring that up constantly, and I think this character is just as, if not more, interesting,” he said. For Bomer, the intrigue of playing a gay character who is embodied by two different actors was “a big part” of why he said yes to the project. “Doom Patrol,” developed for TV by “Supernatural” producer Jeremy Carver, is a reimagining of one of DC’s weirdest comic book series of the same name. The show also stars Brendan Fraser as former hotshot race car driver Cliff Steele , Diane Guerrero as Crazy Jane, whose 64 personalities each have a different superpower , and April Bowlby as former Hollywood Golden Age star Rita Farr .Each of them has been rescued and given a home by Dr.
NBCOUT Will fail miserably. What is Hollywood thinking?
NBCOUT No offense, but gay and superhero are contradictory.
NBCOUT Ugh...!!!!
NBCOUT He can leap over a heterosexual in a single bound?
NBCOUT leedanielsent they stole your idea 👀😬
NBCOUT Sorry. Already been done.
NBCOUT And? Are we supposed to be triggered? Are we supposed to celebrate? Does the heroes sexuality somehow affect his ability as a hero? His sexuality wasn’t even a consideration until you felt it needed to be pointed out? Tell me!! How am I supposed to react?
NBCOUT Oh how (yawn) edgy. 😴